| Show A YEARS YEAR S' S DISASTER RELIEF COST Red Cross Cross- Aided Victims Victims Vic VIe tims Urns in United States States' states Losses Losses J Total two Seventy disasters with hundred hundreds hundreds hun hun- dred reported killed and and- Injured and more than H either homeless or I II I requiring aSi assistance called for tor emergency emergency emer emen gency relief measures and the expenditure expenditure ex ex- of ot 1 by the American Red Rell Crews Cress during the fiscal year ending June 30 1 according to a statement ment based on the forth forth- coming annual report of ot the R Red d Cro Cross J. J The greatest toll toU of life was taken h by hurricane and tornado overflowing o of rivers the tho while while- while the the breaking of dams dam and torrential rains drove e the greatest te t number of people from their homes The rile property loss was wag estimated at more than 30 The years year's t disasters reported in included included in- in twenty six floods nineteen tornadoes tor tor- fifteen fire fin s four epidemics two Vo Ih ra two sit shipwrecks h one an al r find a bridge col collapse 01 l. l lapse mine Xi I ion railway collision colli colli- collision sion slon and u It drou drought ht Of the floods la lu lathe luthe the United States that at Jan tiro Antonio An An- Y tonio Texas mused caused d the greatest property loss los and the bi high highmark highmark h mark of fatalities while the flood Hood In the vicinity of nf Vicksburg and Natchez Miss HRS forced persons from their homes A National C Calamity In the Red Cross disaster relief records records' there will probably remain for many years years one calamity tou touched bed nearly every state with a sense of ot horror and of ot loss This was the Ule distressing collapse of ot the roof root of the Knickerbocker Theatre in la Washington ton D. D C. C resulting in Kr t t ty deaths and qi Situated in the uti ful Northwest t ri motion picture theatre W ro lz by many I persons of prominence bothIn both bothIn In the official and civil life of ot the National Na Na- National Capital whose family and personal per per- personal connections radiated out OV over over- e the entire country The horror was Intensified by a terrific snowstorm which though It retarded did not block Red Cross relief Airship Crash Finds Ai Aid at Hand The crash and und destruction of the U.S. U U. S S. S Army's large airship Roma In Virginia VIrginia Virginia Vir VIr- ginia last lost February with the loss Ion of 34 st officers and men and 11 Injured waa was was' the first disaster of Its kind to call for Red Cross relief m in this country The suddenness of or the accident te tested ted th the that preparedness g of ot the organization org and amt an of ot the Chapter at Hampton Va Var but the response e W was S Immediate and relief relict furnished the survivors ors also funds forthe for tor- forthe the expenses expense of ot rel relatives thes of ot the dead dead who came from long distances to to clams claim their own own- In the years year's oversea record for aid rendered b by the Red ned Cross Cros- Crosare are tvr two tw fires In th the Philippines one In Manila ManUa which b. b destroyed 1000 homes with a a loss of and persons persona 1 made homeless the other at TonIo which drove from their their- dwellings In medical relief that was waa quick and effective the smallpox epidemic In San Saz Domingo which had a total of 22 cases with deaths in a single da day tested the readiness of ot the Red Cross 1 for tor action and the same ume can be said of the San Domingo hurricane which killed 12 persons and reduced the homes rf f Of persons to wreckage A flood In San Salvador with a death toll of 50 and 2000 refugees refugee was WIlS also efi effectually handled by the local Chapter Chap Chap- ter of the American Red Cross Relief Machinery Perfected The year has seen soon the further per per-p of ot disaster relief administrative tive Uve measures in hi every of ot American American Ameri Ameri- can Red Cross activity and that th the therk cork ork may be carried on t to still greater a accomplishments the American Red Bed RedCross Cross is 18 appealing for widespread renewal renewal renewal re re- newal of membership during the annual an an- annual nual lual Roll Call to be conducted this year rear front from Armistice Day November 11 to and including Thanksgiving Day November 30 |
